These are all, "so close to being there".
Each image, save number 4, have a few little details or posing that greatly detract from a superior image.

#1 It's the hair
#2 It's the bloodied lip
#3 It's the hair again, the out of place nail polish, and the fake looking flowers
#4 Is a great idea. The only nit is her squinted eye looks a bit funny. I really like the pose and expression and feeling of this shot
#5 Would have looked 100x's better without the gum and with a fierce expression.
#6 The expression and the pose don't mix at all. It looks like you caught her expression right before she slipped and fell over.
#7 Would be ok on it's own, but mixed in with this set it leaves you thinking, "Did he mistakenly put this photo in this set?"
#8 Would have worked better as a Triptych instead of having the different poses all in the same frame.

The processing and lighting is good on all of these, just needs that little attention to detail to take it over the top.

JasperR wrote:
These are all, "so close to being there".
Each image, save number 4, have a few little details or posing that greatly detract from a superior image.

#1 It's the hair
#2 It's the bloodied lip
#3 It's the hair again, the out of place nail polish, and the fake looking flowers
#4 Is a great idea. The only nit is her squinted eye looks a bit funny. I really like the pose and expression and feeling of this shot
#5 Would have looked 100x's better without the gum and with a fierce expression.
#6 The expression and the pose don't mix at all. It looks like you caught her expression right before she slipped and fell over.
#7 Would be ok on it's own, but mixed in with this set it leaves you thinking, "Did he mistakenly put this photo in this set?"
#8 Would have worked better as a Triptych instead of having the different poses all in the same frame.

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JasperR, thank you very much for your detailed comments, you made my day. I had just noticed that there were about 600 views, but only one comment before you, which I found pretty odd.
Just a few comments to your comments:
- these pictures were made as a TFP shooting and we had a MUA in making the pics 1-6, but not in # 7-8.

- in the first one I used a small wind machine and I forced myself not to retouch the hair in post processing, because Iīm often critizized about being too careful removing hair strays and other details

- number 2 I can agree with you now about the MUA`s idea of the "bloodied lip"

- Number 3: you are right about the messy hair (I struggled with it all the time).
- the roses are real and the bunch was made by a florist and cost a lot
- Iīm not sure what you mean by "out of place nail polish". Ok, if you mean the style of it,
but maybe because the web-file is so small, you canīt see the carefully done "nail-art" (sorry about my English)
This was the modelīs favorite frame though and made a large framed print of it to her.

- your suggestion to number 5 is good

- number 6: itīs interesting to learn that you see it that way, the pose was done very carefully, but maybe we failed in this.

- number 7 is of course different than the rest of the pics. I just put it here to show another look of Elina.

dmacmillan wrote:
These are fun! Nits have been covered already. I like the attitude in #4. She's very versatile, can come up with a number of looks, which you capture well.

Dmacmillan, thank you for the comment. Yes, the model is versatile and nice to work with. For example, with some models itīs hard to get different kinds of expressions out of them, but not in this case. Cheers,

Jim Rickards wrote:
Enjoyed this set and found it one of the better ones we see here. The lighting is a strong point, but everything comes across as professional.

A few nits, some already mentioned.

- the hair in #1 seems at odds with the formal look of her makeup and the roses. I can see how she would want a flyaway hair shot in her portfolio, however.

- don't put the same roses in too many pictures of her portfolio (advice more for her than you)

JIm, thank you for your comments and tips.

Nothing to do with your comments or anyone elseīs personally, but it would be interesting to be able to read the each commentatorīs opinion so that the person wouldnīt have seen other peoplen comments about the images. In other words to hear oneīs own honest opinion of the images without the inluence of others. After somebody has pointed out some detail of a picture (a fault in his/her opinion), which I didnīt notice or it didnīt bother me, I canīt look at the image again without thinking about the remark of someone else. That starts to bug me : ) Iīm not sure if you understand my point or lousy English here Cheers,

Nothing to do with your comments or anyone elseīs personally, but it would be interesting to be able to read the each commentatorīs opinion so that the person wouldnīt have seen other peoplen comments about the images. In other words to hear oneīs own honest opinion of the images without the inluence of others. After somebody has pointed out some detail of a picture (a fault in his/her opinion), which I didnīt notice or it didnīt bother me, I canīt look at the image again without thinking about the remark of someone else. That starts to bug me : ) Iīm not sure if you understand my point or lousy English here Cheers,

Teemu Salminen

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It's a very good point. I see people "echoing" what previous posters have said. I try to avoid that by not looking at other replies before I form my own opinion. But then natural curiosity sometimes has me peeking at the other replies before I click the button.

And your English is fine. You are writing like a native North American English person. A few typos here and there - same as everybody else.